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I'm so impressed by Jennifer Lawrence and Carey Mulligan. They have this exquisite taste. They are very gifted in their ability to make great choices. (Claire Danes)
I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form. View quote
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I have to expose myself and then accept the judgment that audiences and critics will have. And that's okay. I appreciate the elliptical nature of it. Sometimes people are more in the mood to be nice to me than others, and that's great. View quote
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Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because it's over-used or inappropriately used. View quote
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College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development. View quote
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Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time. View quote
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Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive. View quote
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Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism. View quote
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My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility. View quote
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I actually haven't been approached a whole lot for television, believe it or not. View quote
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I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it. (Claire Danes)
I am not a genius. But I am nerdy. View quote
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Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology. View quote
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I can get a dance party started pretty much anywhere and anytime. View quote
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Any story is better with a little love in it, right? View quote
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I guess I stopped acting when I was 18 and didn't pick it up again until I was 21. That wasn't the plan, though. When I first started at Yale, the plan was to do a movie each summer. View quote
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I got an agent when I was 12, and I started working in more amateur productions well before that. But even as a kid, I never felt like a kid actor, you know? I always took myself kind of absurdly seriously. View quote
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I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it. View quote
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By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself. View quote
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As a young performer, I didn't know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it's not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let it go when it's done. View quote
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It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy. (Claire Danes)
Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely. View quote
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Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish. View quote
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I like marriage. I feel very secure. It helps when you are in love with the person you are married to. View quote
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People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries. View quote
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